Like Jezebel, these corpses are left unburied; they are "loathsome" to all who see them (2 Kings 9:10). To burn a corpse signified at times a thing utterly accursed or devoted to God for destruction (Josh 7:25). It also was an act of complete contempt (Amos 2:1)... Because ...
Thus Dido is found to belong to the same root as David, "beloved;" meaning "his love" or "delight:" i.e., the love or delight either of Baal or of her husband: Hasdrubal is the man "whose help Baal is:" Hamilcar the man whom the god "Milcar graciously granted" (comp. Hana...
This is why Satan strives to deprive our children of the communication of baptism—so that when this testimony that the Lord ordained in order to confirm for us the graces which He wants to give our children has been erased from before our eye, we might likewise little by little forget the...
Trying to understand why this occurs provides a portal into the meaning of suicide for a person. Crucial to this question is an examination of any suicide notes that are left behind. They are sometimes quite hostile and designed to hurt people whom the suicide thinks have wronged him/her. ...
According to the Sages, this was the spirit of Naboth the Jezreelite, killed on the orders of Jezebel, Ahab’s wife: see b. Sanh. 89a. Sasportas states this explicitly in the first letter quoted here. 56 1 Kgs 22:34–40. See (Gray 1970, pp. 452–53; Devries 1985, p. 268)....
Ahab was breaking bad and his queen Jezebel may have been even worse; Elijah was the prophet God had sent to stand against them and challenge their wickedness. It was a thankless, dangerous job, and King Ahab disdained Elijah as the “troubler of Israel.” . . . ...
Because the king of Judah (Ahaziah) had been killed in the revolution—along with the remaining northern members of the house of Omri—the southern kingdom was ruled over by the queen mother,Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. In her zeal topropagatethe faith of her mother, Athaliah...